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News Release from: Altera Europe | Subject: Stratix II GX FPGAs
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 17 April 2007
System reduces design times for Harris
An Altera MegaCore has optimised Harris' engineering team's productivity and allowed great flexibility in its video router.
Harris Corporation has selected Altera's Stratix II GX-based development kit and 3Gbyte/s serial digital interface (SDI) intellectual property (IP) MegaCore function to reduce development time by several months for their recently introduced line of Platinum video broadcast routers "Altera's SDI solution was instrumental in reducing engineering time and maintaining high-definition signal integrity", said Tim Thorsteinson, President of the Harris Broadcast Communications Division
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 5 Sep 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Altera provided us with a complete development framework, including a high-quality MegaCore, which optimised our engineering team's productivity and allowed great flexibility in our video routers".
Stratix II GX FPGAs support SDI, high-definition (HD)-SDI and 3Gbyte/s SDI serial data speeds with up to 20 triple-rate SDI full-duplex transceiver channels operating across a range of 270Mbyte/s to 3Gbyte/s.
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Maintaining video signal integrity in the studio environment is essential in next-generation switchers, H.264 encoders, routers, transcoders and integrated receiver/decoders.
Using the Stratix II GX-based audio/video development kit, broadcast designers can maintain high signal quality in their HD systems.
The development kit is the first to support triple-rate SDI, including the SMPTE 424M standard.
It simplifies product development by enabling engineers to address HD degradation points, or "quality hot spots", and implement the full 1080p HD video format in their studio systems.
"Altera and our partners enable cost-effective broadcast system designs that notably improve HD video signal quality", said Tim Colleran, Vice President of Altera's Consumer, Automotive and Broadcast business units.
"We provide entire development platforms, not just devices, which allow broadcast OEMs to focus on their core competencies and differentiate their A/V systems".
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